Selected quad for the lemma: love_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
love_n	beget_v	know_v	love_v	3,745	5	6.8688	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66756	An improvement of imprisonment, disgrace, poverty, into real freedom, honest reputation, perdurable riches evidenced in a few crums & scraps lately found in a prisoners-basket at Newgate, and saved together, by a visitant of oppressed prisoners, for the refreshing of himself and those who are either in a worse prison or (who loathing the dainties of the flesh) hunger and thrist after righteousness / by George Wither.	Wither, George, 1588-1667.	1661 (1661)	Wing W3163; ESTC R14994	55,794	128

all of them except a very few Such as untill of late I neither knew In Person or by name some of them be In judgement also differing from me In some points which infallibly doth prove Their Faith is true and perfected by Love Their Charity This I dare boldly say GOD will reward upon their Tryal day And in those future dreadful Visitations Which likely are to come upon these Nations Preserve their lives to see them who oppresse Receive their portions with the merciless As sure as I yet live it will be thus Or they at least when Christ calls them with us Before his Judgement-throne repaid will be What they have here vouchsafed unto me For mercy though extended to a Beast Much more to man with some reward is blest And though I were a more unworthy wretch Then was by Nature that Ebed-melech Yet forasmuch as me they have received As one of Christs Disciples and relieved What er'e I am he Charity regards And they accordingly shall have rewards Newgate Sept. 26. 1661. An Antidote against Fear composed upon the Citizens being unexpectedly in Arms Sept. 28. 1661. at night GOD keep all safe abroad I 'm in my Bed And see no danger yet or cause of dread Emanuel my Protector is become He keeps all Pannick-fears out of this Roome And though the Devil and my Foes together Confederated they can bring none hither Here 's nought that any way doth me disease Unless it be a few poor starveling Fleas Which I perceive are more afraid of me Then cause I have of them afraid to be For if I do but shrugg where it doth itch They skip into a hole and there they couch No Thief I think to rob me dares appear Within these Walls the Gallowes are so near And likewise I believe 't is known full well I 've nought to lose nor ought for them to steal I no Back-biters had since to this house I my Commitment had except one Louse Which now is dead not having left behind A son or daughter that I yet can find And though I were assaulted with a score As here some are oft-times with many more I am assur'd my Landress hath a gift To rid them and it is a cleanly shift I do suspect that thus it doth not fare With all men who rejoyce that I am here But that although they speak big words and grin They have more fears without them or within And that some thousands who yet walk the street With more and with worse misadventures meet For Terrors are abroad and ev'ry where It doth in Language or in looks appear I just now hear a sound like to Alarms Drums beating and the ●lattering of Arms I as they pass along hear Souldiers voyces Words of Command and Military Noises Which by the time and darkness of the night Doth many of the Neighbour-hood affright And makes me think although I cannot tell What is amiss that all things go not well What should the matter be I hope the men Whom we saw dead are not alive agen For though I live yet and live longer may I did expect to rise assoon as they Most hoped they er'e now should have been free From that wherewith disturbed they still be But many see here 's dayly an increase Of what may more infringe the Common-peace The Citizens I hear strict watch do keep This night in Arms I hope were they asleep We should be safe and that this will hereafter Yield much less cause of sorrow then of laughter For all our Factions are now of each other So fearful that they 'l hardly come together Unless affrighted in the dark they are And fall foul on each other unaware Men might if there withall they could be pleas'd Of pains and cost and troubles be much eas'd With much more safety and more honour too Yet make no night Alarms as now they do He that 's a pious and an honest liver Needs not the Mores Bow nor the Parthians Quiver Nor to be singly much less double garded For Innocence is by it self well warded And when she 's most maliciously surrounded Then soonest her Oppressors are confounded Of all the Foes that are or ever were There 's none so bad or ●●ngerous as Fear For it not onely many a man distresses When Plenty Power and Honour he possesses And all the pleasures of his life destroys Whilst ev'ry thing he seemingly enjoyes But makes Plagues also which will never come To be a greater torment unto some Then they are or then they can be if all Whereof they are afraid should them befall Moreover it is such a foe as none Can easily escape when seiz'd upon Nor Power nor Policy nor Walls of Brasse To keep it out can strengthen any place Nor Flesh and Blood by Sratagem or Ginn Expell it can when it hath broken in Were all the Wealth and Weapons in the Land And all the People at one Mans Command They could not fortifie his heart from fears For Terrours will creep in ev'n at the ears And passage make through ev'ry other Sence In spight of all resistance and defence That Fear is such a Terrour I well know For I have felt it though I do not now Save as a natural passion which if well We moderate is what a Sentinel Is to an Army and by Flesh and Blood Though possibly it cannot be withstood Especially when by a wilful Sin Against Good Conscience acted it breaks in And growes inraged yet by Grace we may Subdue it And this is the only way Take Fear and Love well tempered together As much as may sufficient be of either Fire quencheth Fire The oil of Scorpions heals The Scorpions sting and if of all things else You would be fearless you must fear GOD so As man ought Do as to be done unto You would expect and to that Fear add Love For Love expelleth ev'ry other Fear If placed on right Objects and sincere Plucks up all Vices and plants in their places Habitual Vertues and Celestial Graces The Love of GOD with Filial Fear begins And with a detestation of all sins The knowledge of our Natural Estate In us Desires to cure it will Create The Love of GOD in Christ then being known And what when we incurable were grown He hath done for us will more Love beget If we no false suggestions do admit That Love will also dayly stronger grow If we GOD's nature truly learn to know And not as Eve did him suspect of Evil Ascribe to him what 's proper to the Devil Suspect the Promises which he doth give us Nor think that he intendeth to deceive us For if we love him we will then believe him In all his Attributes due Glory give him We then will do and not disputing stand Of that which he forbids or doth command Nor fear nor stagger from that Resolution Who ever countermands their execution But love him so as having understood That all his Works and his Commands are good So love

him that we love his whole Creation Nought hating but what 's his abomination We will not then permit Humane Tradition With his known will to stand in competition Lay bonds on them whom he from Bondage frees Charge him with Ordinances and Decrees Which he did never make but forged were By him who layes for ev'ry Soul a snare Or by his Instruments whose Merchandizes And Pomp are much advanc'd by those devises We will not when he graciously invites To penitence reject him with despights And foes implacable to them appear Who zealous of their Weal and Safety are These are the Well-springs of those many errors Distractions miseries and Pannick Terrours Which are among us That which chiefly here Begetteth troubles and augmenteth fear Is want of such a Fear and such a Love As may become effectual to improve Those Judgements these Mercies which our eyes Have seen whereby though we see GOD tryes These Nations to this day nor Prince nor Peer Nor Priest nor People doth as yet appear So mindful as they ought to be of that Which was for or against them done of late Nor see I any Fruit which thence proceeds Save Thorns Brambles Thistles tares or weeds But they who stop their Ears and shut their Eyes Against those Wonders and those Prodigies Which have been lately sent to startle them From that security wherein they Dream And they who are not much displeas'd alone With Publication of what God hath done But also with his Word shall see and hear Those things ere long with trembling with fear Which will not be concealed but befall So openly as to be known to all These have the causes been that Christendom Is lately an Acheldama become For these are those things which advance the works Of Antichrist and make way for the Turks Let us repent therefore whilst we have space Lest Fields of Blood be turned to Golgotha's Let us in this our Visitation day Give ear unto GOD's Voice whilst yet we may Not like Bruit Beasts pursuing one another But lincking fast in Charity together Be reconcil'd to GOD with Loving-awe For that sums up the Gospel and the Law Do this and if of ought your fearful be Let all that you can fear fall upon me A short Excuse rendering some Reasons why this Prisoner makes no Adresses for his Release to great Persons for their Favour in his Cause I Am inform'd by men of good report That there are Noble Pers'nages in Court Who hate Injustice and are of their Tribe Who love not baseness flattery or a Bribe And that should I my self to these Adresse I might perhaps obtain a quick release 'T is possible But I may much indanger Their Quiet and am now grown such a stranger To Courtship that I cannot Complement Or act effectually to that intent Nor think it prudence were I mov'd that way To seek a Needle in a Trusse of Hay 'T is not my Principle though other while I have been over-ruled to beguile My understanding that course to endeavour And having found it unsucesful ever Resolve now be it for my gain or loss To signifie my Cause to them in grosse In open Courts to whom it doth belong To be my Judges of what 's right or wrong For if impartially they will not hear My cause at large and do me Justice there I will not be oblig'd to any one To do for private ends what should be done For Justice-sake because where one man shall Be so corrupt it may corrupt them all And in each Case by turns for unjust ends They may Bribe one another for their Friends As heretofore they did and as they may Hereafter whatsoever I do or say Not much esteem of any thing I make Which other men can either give or take Nor Safety Wealth or Honour pleaseth me But that which will inseparable be From me and which I may attain unto And also keep whether men will or no. Vertue 's the Fountain whence true honour springs Not Popes Grand Segniors Emperors or Kings For what they give to make men Honourable To me appears to be so dispicable That though most men do their chief darling make it If they would give it me I would not take it What is there likely for me to be done By those who such-like Baubles dote upon I never hitherto a kindness had By any Friend which I my self have made But by such onely as God had inclin'd Without a by-respect in any kind To do me Justice or to shew compassion Mov'd by their own Heroick inclination And to that end GOD often heretofore Hath from among meer strangers rais'd me more True Friends at need my cause to undertake Then I deserved or had pow'r to make And as it me contented much the better So thereby was their honour made the greater Most seek the Judge but I believe his word Who said The Judgement cometh from the LORD And unto me it seems an indirect Aspersion or a Symptom of suspect A Judge in private to preoccupate And him by Friends or Gifts to captivate For in great Counsels men should nothing do In love to Friends or hatred to a Foe I have observed that Judicial Courts Whether they be of good or bad reports Or whether what is actually there done Seem just or to the wrong of any one Are guided by a Spirit which directs To what is alwayes Righteous in respects Unto GOD's Justice though perhaps it may A Humane Righteousness infringe some way Or though they to whom Judgement is refer'd Through Ignorance or Wickedness have err'd I le therefore make no Friend nor fear a Foe But when the COMMONS call me I will go To hear their Charge for which I have begun To suffer er'e 't is known what I have done That least I break or die before the time In which I must make payment for my crime If crime it prove they rather overweight May lay then that which is a Dram too light For punishments are usually well paid Though other debts till Dooms Day are delay'd And Innocence is oft pursued further Upon suspect then real Theft or Murther In that for which unheard some precondemn My Person hither I TO GOD and them Whom it may most concern Appeals have made Whereon I ought a Tryal to have had Before I suff'red My Appeal prefer'd To GOD hath betwixt him and me been heard Within his Court of Conscience in my heart And there am quit of what may on his part Be brought against me for what I have writ He sees it though the world concealeth it And read it must be by the Commons too Ev'n quite throughout if Justice they will do Before they censure it Needless it were If just and conscientious men they are To Court them to their Duties and so strong No Charm of mine can be whereby a wrong May be prevented if to take that ill They be resolv'd which flowed from Good-will At all aduenture wholly to the Laws And to